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The perfect gift book for a variety of purposes, Classic Wisdom for the Good Life is a collection of thoughts on being a good person and enjoying a rich, successful, and happy life. "A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life."-Muhammad Ali"It's easy to make a buck. It's a lot tougher to make a difference." -Tom Brokaw"Look, I don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive you've got to flap your arms and legs, you've got to jump around a lot, for life is the very opposite of death, and therefore you must at very least think noisy and colorfully, or you're not alive."-Mel Brooks

"Three be the things I shall never attain: Envy, content, and sufficient champagne."--Dorothy ParkerFrom pubs, alehouses, wine bars, vineyards, across the table, and under the table comes a flowing river of thoughts about drinking. Some of it you'll find profound, some of it funny, some of it silly. But all of it's about that most inspired of human inventions: alcohol.From the ancient ("The man who isn't jolly after drinking is just a driveling idiot to my thinking." --Euripedes) to the modern ("Alcohol--the cause of and the solution to all of life's problems." --Homer Simpson), here is wit, wisdom, and drunken ramblings about beer, wine, whiskey, gin, and every other alcoholic substance humans have happily used since the beginning of time to pickle their livers. Mixed with favorite drink recipes, short biographies of potable quotables, and information about favorite watering spots, this is a resource you will want to keep next to the bottle of Beefeaters and bitters

In this profound and playful book, Nassim Nicholas Taleb presents his ideas about life in the form of aphorisms, the world's earliest - and most memorable - literary form. Procrustes was a character from Greek mythology who abducted travellers and invited them to spend the night in a special bed, which they had to fit to perfection. They never did. Those who were too tall had their legs chopped off; those who were too short were stretched. Every aphorism here is about a Procrustean bed of sorts - we humans, facing the limits of our knowledge, the unseen and the unknown, resolve the tension by squeezing life and the world into crisp commoditized ideas, reductive categories, specific vocabularies and pre-packaged narratives. Only by embracing the unexpected - and accepting what we don't know - can we see the world as it really is.

With 48 fact-filled cards per package, Knowledge Cards are a great source of condensed information--all in a deck the size of a pack of playing cards. Each card features a 'who said' question on one side, such as 'Ninety percent of the game is half mental', with informed, illuminating comments on the other side.Size: 3 1/4 x 4 inches. Published with Susan Reyburn, the Library of Congress.

"The best kind of reference book--one that amuses as it instructs. I fell for it hook, line, and sinker."
CLEVELAND PLAIN DEALERR
IN A NUTSHELL, here's a terrific A TO Z listing of the meanings and origins of over 2,000 common or particularly interesting cliches for everyone who delights in the pleasure of words.

This compilation of Latin phases and quotations will clarify previously encountered phrases and introduce a plethora of new ones.

Pages: 84, Paperback, St. Augustines Press

Pages: 153, Paperback, Walnut Grove Press

A collection of stupid utterances, mostly unintentional-although not always-from politics, show business, sports, and anywhere else people can put their feet in their mouths.

A collection of the world's wisdom, from sources ranging from the Bible and Shakespeare to the Beatles and Yogi Berra.